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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Call Home the Child

Call Home the Child

Carrigan, Bill

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1500387908
ISBN13: 9781500387907
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 5 2014
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Call Home the Child Penny Wilson, a four year old black girl, is up for adoption in Virginia, 1988. Nancy Dean, the young social worker in charge, must save Penny's mother, ill, poor, and burdened with too many children. Jo Nolan Putney, a stunning white riding instructor, applies. But Jo's intolerant husband and Nancy's attentive boss, attentive to her, then to Jo, soon prove disruptive. Jo shows more heart than sense in trying to rush the adoption. And Nancy strives, at great personal cost, to resolve the mounting turmoil for Penny's sake. In a climate of prejudice and social tension, Penny becomes the center of powerful forces spinning out of control. The outcome is a bizarre killing, a trial, and a complete transformation of Penny's world. Some will see a gripping social drama, with flashes of satire, others a tale of love and sacrifice. But a little child's fate is what it's truly about and the unbidden truths her fate reveals.

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